Community

Sending Over Seating: West Ridge Church Is Set to Launch Its 125th Church

West Ridge focuses on raising up the next generation from within the church to send out and either be church planters or serve as part of a church planting team.

Campus Connections: A Focus on College Students Drives Iowa Church Planting

Although people tend to think that university students are hard to reach, Mark Vance disagrees. “The college campus is actually freakishly wildly open to the gospel.”

Westside Family Church: Life Transformation

Because people said in this assessment that they wanted to grow in their relationships, the church turned its attention to forming a more connected community.

Rideshare Redemption

Over the past two years alone, about 25 customers have accepted Christ, Hickman reports.

Finding True Freedom

The ministry volunteers start by asking facility staffers about their needs. They then focus on building a ministry that serves those particular needs, and provide a consistent faith community within the correctional facility.

Doing Unto Others

Davis maintains that ministry shouldn’t be about serving at church on a Sunday morning, because those people are already saved. Instead, it should be about doing ministry on the mission field and talking to people who are unchurched.

The Gift of Life

For the small church, a blood drive is an easy, no-cost way to give to others, and is perhaps more impactful and life-changing (and life-saving) than any amount of money could be.

The Right People at the Right Time

The entire congregation, specifically the older folks, have been very welcoming of the changes that come with younger demographics, who bring with them different preferences when it comes to worship style and church experience.

Talk About Special

Access Christian Church emphasizes that everyone has God-given strengths and talents that need to be used in the kingdom. Therefore, church leadership has as their goal to give everyone the opportunity to serve.

Health and Souls

Through the years the clinic has offered cost-free care to over 100 patients. In addition to medical attention, each patient has an opportunity to meet with volunteers to hear the gospel.

An Easter Feast

Providing these groceries is just one way Madison Hills has served its neighbors through food.